Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Steingold Subject: Re: cygwin license with windows apps? Date: 20 Jun 2003 10:33:09 -0400 Organization: disorganization Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <3ef3180f.25ae.1804289383@wowway.com> Reply-To: sds@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 > * In message <3ef3180f.25ae.1804289383@wowway.com> > * On the subject of "cygwin license with windows apps?" > * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:19:59 -0500 > * Honorable bsiever@wowway.com writes: > > If you use gcc in the cygwin environment to build a windows > app and link against the windows dll's (using -mnocygwin > option), does this still fall under the GPL, even though you > aren't depending on the cygwin dll? No, no more than a program built on linux with gcc and glibc; you can distribute it under any license you want. IANAL. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat9 GNU/Linux If your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/